The Latest on the War Obama Wanted Us to Lose
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Michael Yon reports:
As we rolled out from dusty Forward Operating Base (FOB) Falcon, I asked how many casualties the unit had taken since they had arrived, from Fort Hood (Texas), in March 2008. The soldiers told me that one Humvee had taken an EFP strike, but that a Private Rafael Martinez had received only a ruptured eardrum.
It represents vast progress to observe that the current rotation in 2008 has lost only two soldiers to an EFP strike. As sad as those losses are, the extreme distinction over the 100 lost in the Dragon Brigade from the previous year is immense and exultant. The area has fallen nearly completely silent. The war has ended. The canary in the mineshaft survived. It is starting to chirp and it is just a matter of time before it begins to sing.
One battalion in the Dragon Brigade was the 2-12 Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Michael. His right hand man, Command Sergeant Major Charles Sasser, was open to and confident with the press and provided more than just combat expertise. I went on missions with his men, who spent important time educating me about their area when they could have been sleeping. LTC Michael is a native of Guyana in South America. The Guyanese are famously soft-spoken. In fact, Major Kirk Luedeke said of LTC Michael, “Soft spoken guy, but an extremely bright and tenacious fighter.” It was true. The commander seemed gentle and grandfatherly, but he commanded his units with great expertise in what must have been one of the most complicated areas in Iraq. LTC Michael’s battalion took 18 KIAs and more than 150 wounded, mostly during the surge. (2-12 was one of the battalions in the Dragon Brigade.) The 2-12’s old area has fallen quiet now. The soldiers accomplished their mission, though I doubt anyone will ever know how hard they worked.
Read the whole thing – and remember to thank those glorious men and women of our armed forces, and their international and Iraqi allies, who fought so hard to bring this victory to you, my fellow Americans. And, also, the courage of President Bush, Senator McCain, Senator Lieberman and all those others who refused to back down and pressed for victory when many Americans, to their shame, were calling the war a failure and demanding we pull out regardless of consequences.
President-elect Obama will inherit a victory – I hope he knows how to use it.
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13 Responses to “The Latest on the War Obama Wanted Us to Lose”
Caucus of Corruption
I still think you are prematire to declare a victory.
Those Muslim fanatics are more determined than that you can understand
“War Obama Wanted Us to Lose”
Good thing you aren’t a christian, bearing false witness is a sin.
We told them to “bring it on”
We were greeted as “liberators”
We founded those “WMDs”
and “Mission accomplished” occured five years ago.
Time for our military to come home and enjoy the fruits of soon to be private citizen Bush’s labors of these last eight years – foreclosure and unemployment
Yes Obama will have it easy after inheriting this
Heh, I guess this registration thing is not keeping out the disagreeable.
Canuck,
Never was the intent – just designed to give us greater control over those who come here to do no more than insult.
Barr,
Obama wanted us out by March of this year – that would have meant a defeat, ergo Obama wanted us to lose. If you don’t like this, I suggest you take it up with Obama.
Obama wanted us out by March of this year
But you have repeatedly insisted since well before March of this year that Iraq was already won. Ergo, per your own talking points, Obama was simply advocating for post-victory withdrawal and not “defeat.” If you don’t like this, I suggest you modify your talking points and bring them in line with reality.
Mark, you stated “..to give us greater control over those who come here to do no more than insult.”
Does this mean when you make what some would consider totally wrong statements or some other commentator makes some doofus comment, others can’t state the truth that they are, for example, blockheads, dickheads, idiots, looney, wingnuts, etc, you know, the usual shots.
Surely you are not going to curtail the colourful language.
I find your site an invaluable source for rightwing memes. You don’t always explicitly say where a given meme comes from— but you always give enough detail to enable me to find the source, and also to figure out what the original logic behind it was. In this case, the meme is that that coeardly Obama pulled our troops out just as we were on the verge of victoriy… and Mark has pointed me to an article by someone named Michael Yon which supposedly shows that our troops have almost but not quite won.
It is useful to see who Michael Yon is. He turns out to be a former Green Beret who is an independent blogger and freelance reporter… who was a longtime supporter of the war and claims to be close to General Petraeus. He has his point of view and his work is interesting… but he has been saying all along that the war is almost won. He is also a relatively obscure commentator. The fact that he just put out a positive story about the war does not necessarily prove that anything in particular has changed.
timhorrorgun
The fact that he just put out a positive story about the war does not necessarily prove that anything in particular has changed.
Two country war, six years and only 4000, killed.
Miraculous.
Two country war, six years and only 4000, killed.
10. fmrmarine | November 25th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
4,000 lives too many, my friend.
Why Bush can’t lose with Clintons military.
When we invaded Afghanistan, it was late in 2001. At this point, Bush’s military budget was yet to be submitted, so it was still Clintons military. Now, for the past several thousand years, no one has been able to succesfully launch a full invasion into Afghanistan. Yet we were able to conquer it in three weeks.
You mean other than the Aryans, the Persians, the Greeks, the Mauryans, the Parthians, the Kushans, the Sassanians, the Ephtalites, the Sassanians again, the Arabs, the Samanids, the Seljuqs, the Mongols, the Timurids, the Shaybanids, the Mughals, the Safavids, and the Afsharids, the British, and the Soviets? (The Brits and Soviets both successfully invaded, but insurgencies eventually developed.)